Aspiring Hollywood directors, listen up! Deadline reports that Taken 2 will begin filming with Liam Neeson in the spring of 2011, but there’s a vital part of the production still missing: a director. So, you know, if you’re in the mood to direct a mediocre-but-kind-of-exciting-at-times kidnap action thriller, send EuropaCorp your reel!
EuropaCorp is also toying with the idea of a Taken television series. Yeah, that’s right. They want to take a movie that spent two hours painfully milking a kidnapping storyline we’d seen a million times before, subtract its only bearable part (Neeson), somehow stretch it out to a 12 or more episode arc, and put it on the tube. So yeah, this all makes perfect sense.
Now in semi-relevant-but-not-really news, EuropaCorp wants another television series based on a movie. The culprit this time? The Transporter — the movie series that turned Jason Statham‘s typecast from a ballsy, badass driver to, well, a ballsy, badass driver. The 12-episode series is set to start shooting after the new year with a budget of $48 million and the studio hopes to air the first season in November 2011. And unless Statham somehow manages to majorly fuck up his entire career in the next three weeks, it’s pretty unlikely that he’ll star.
Source: Deadline
